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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Reality? Check.

You go along in life thinking about the mundane things.Is the leak a plumbing issue, or not?Will I ever get the leaves cleared out from the yard?Then you get a dose of reality and it takes your breath away.My aunt--my father's sister-in-law--was diagnosed with cancer last year. Now she has weeks or less to live.Next Tuesday is the two year anniversary of my Mother's death from cancer.I don't think I care about leaks or leaves or stimulus packages or bipartisanship.Or any crap.I can only think that one minute we're here, and the next minute we're not.I can only think that we need to cherish those minutes we have together.Because one day, you might only have a week's worth of minutes left.

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It all goes wicked fast and the older I get the more I remember- that old long term memory thing about us older folks. driving in the morning, at a certain pitch of the sun, the light on the old houses strike me like a bolt and throw me back into some childhood fear.Best I can recall, it was the death of something and I was going to be dumped on another family somewhere. I still get the shivers until that particular light of day is over.